RESCUE: At 10:51pm on Fri we were alerted to a car 400’ over a cliff by the driver’s iPhone 14 crash detection. Location was Mt Wilson Rd. After locating him we guided in an @LACoFireAirOps copter. Suffered head trauma. @LASDHQ@CVLASD@KCBSKCALDesk@NBCLA@ABC7@FOXLA@cnnbrkpic.twitter.com/jXdpuDL7Hk
— Mike Leum (@Resqman) July 22, 2023
Goldsworthy said that the driver’s iPhone 14 handled everything. “The location that we got from the iPhone activation was spot on. It was basically his phone on its own, calling for help on his behalf.” The iPhone 14 quite literally saved the driver’s life said Mike Leum, one of the members of the Montrose Search and Rescue team. “I believe that if we didn’t have that good location information in a timely manner, he probably would’ve bled out,” Leum said. “I kept telling him how lucky he was.”
Both Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via Satellite are features available exclusively on the iPhone 14 series and will probably be included with every new iPhone line moving forward.